Thursday, March 22, 2018

Distributed Solar PV for Electricity System Resiliency

Distributed solar systems have the potential to supply electricity
during grid outages resulting from extreme weather or other emergency
situations. As such, distributed solar can significantly increase the
resiliency of the electricity system.

In order to take advantage
of this capability, however, the systems must be designed with
resiliency in mind and combined with other technologies, such as energy
storage and auxiliary generation.

A new paper from NREL presents the basics
of designing distributed solar systems for resiliency - including the
use of energy storage, hybrid fuel-use and microgrids - and provides
policy and regulatory considerations for encouraging the use of these
distributed system designs.Learn more at : https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy15osti/62631.pdf?platform=hootsuite